Renato
Rosaldo, a Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, is
one of
the world's leading anthropologists. He has done field research
among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he
is the author of Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study
in Society and History (1980). He is also the author
of Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis
(1989). He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology
(with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) (1993), Anthropology
of Globlization (with Jon Inda) (2001), and Cultural
Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Beloning
in the Hinterlands (2003), among other books. He has
been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San Jose,
California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and
an article to Latino Cultural Citizens: Claiming Identity,
Space, and Rights (1997). He is also a poet. Professor Rosaldo
has serves as President of the American Ethnological Society,
Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and
Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He has left Stanford
and now teaches at NYU.